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[mitch074]

Depends on whether you want to watch a movie with or without background noise - 40 less watts of extra heat to evacuate can easily make a difference in...

[mitch074]

Ok, so the delta between Michael's 425 and my own simulated 425 isn't too big in pure CPU-based tasks; I'm just done running the 620 stock, it's here...

[mitch074]

Currently downloading the bench's files. I've set up my CPU to closely match the X3 (2.7 GHz, 3 cores) however since my multiplier locks up at 26 I needed...

[mitch074]

AFAIK, that's what overclocking is for. Kidding aside, XFR is managed by the processor internally; Linux may just never show the core's actual frequency...

[mitch074]

Ah - either I read it backwards or it isn't too clear. Then yes, I mean at the wall - my living room PC uses an oldie Athlon X4 (underclocked to 2.0 GHz,...

[mitch074]

I agree with you on the horrible performance with SR2. SR3 and 4, though, using a recent enough version of Mesa do perform pretty much as well as the...

[mitch074]

I'm not sure how you could check, but if you try playing back such a video which is CABAC-encoded and with native h.264 post-processing not disabled (VLC...

[mitch074]

Jaguar cores may handle it most of the time, but a High profile, CABAC-using h.264 Full HD file may bog it down in some frames that use heavy post-processing...

[mitch074]

Try dropping CPU use from 50% to 3-5%; that's 20 to 40W saving. Another use case is a media PC, mini PC or cheap laptop where the CPU is a low-frequency...